People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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